Date value is not populating in page and not retain in dialog

[Former Community Member]

HI,

I am not able to populate the Date value from datepicker. Please find the JCR nodes below:

code in sightly <h1>${properties.doe}</h1>

Regards,

Sandhya.

[susheel]

Hi Sandhya,

Can you check the same thing in firefox browser, if the value is getting retained or not.

If the issue still exists you can use type as datetime to fix it temporarily.

We also faced this issue in chrome due to some browser restrictions.

Coming to display part:

As this is a date picker. It is stored as Date object, so you need to read the values as below.

Date: ${'dd-MM-yyyy' @ format=properties.doe]} 
(or)
Date: ${'dd-MM-yyyy HH:mm' @ format=properties.doe, timezone='GMT+05:30'}

Go through this link as well : htl-spec/SPECIFICATION.md at master · Adobe-Marketing-Cloud/htl-spec · GitHub

[Former Community Member]

Hi Susheel,

I have tried changing the type="date" to "datetime",Value is retaining in dialog But still it is not displaying on page even after giving

${'MMM-dd-yyyy' @ format=properties.doe,type='datetime'}

It just displaying  "MMM-dd-yyyy" on page.

Regards,

Sandhya.

[susheel]

can you show the stored value node ?

For me Its working fine.

[Former Community Member]

Hi Susheel,

${'YYYY-MM-DD' @ format=properties.doe,type='datetime'}

Couldn't able to reply to your mail,its not delivering.

[susheel]

You are sharing the component node screenshot.

I am asking about the /content where the component is created.

After updating to datetime, did you save the datetime value from dialog.

If yes what do you see exactly on your page, can you add screenshot.

Which version of AEM are you using. I tested this on AEM 6.3

[Former Community Member]

HI,

Yes,DOE value is storing under content node.

On page :: trying to get value from  ${'YYYY-MM-DD' @ format=properties.doe,type='datetime'}

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After updating to datetime, did you save the datetime value from dialog. -- Saving in dialog means value node?

[Former Community Member]

Can you please share your code(pkg),so that i can compare with my code.

Regards,

Sandhya.

[susheel]

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B__LFnt8CclJdmFsUktmV3lYNUE

[Former Community Member]

HI Susheel,

I have requested for the access,Please provide the permission to access  google drive.

Regards,

Sandhya.

[susheel · Accepted solution]

Hi sandhya,

For the value storage datetime will work as we discussed. Seems like format in sightly is not working in 6.2. So we need to write a formatter like below for your component.

package apps.project.components.author.componentname;
import java.text.SimpleDateFormat;
import java.util.Calendar;
import com.adobe.cq.sightly.WCMUsePojo;
public class DateFormatter extends WCMUsePojo {
    private String formattedDate;
    @Override
    public void activate() {
    Calendar date  = get("date", Calendar.class);
    String format =  get("format",String.class);
    SimpleDateFormat formatter = new SimpleDateFormat(format);
    formattedDate = formatter.format(date.getTime());
    }    
    public String getFormattedDate() {
        return formattedDate;
    }
}

<sly data-sly-use.date="${'DateFormatter' @ date=properties.doe,format='dd/MM/yyyy'}">
    ${date.formattedDate}
</sly>

[smacdonald2008]

susheel singh - great community interaction here

[susheel]

Thanks smacdonald2008

[Former Community Member]

Thank you so much for your help and quick response.

[smacdonald2008]

We have a new article that shows use of displaying a DATE value in HTL -- also Sling Model and Coral 3 Multi-Field - https://helpx.adobe.com/experience-manager/using/multifield_coral_aem63.html